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Old 04-01-2014, 11:40 AM
 
Location: state of enlightenment
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Opinion: Las Vegas made a big, bad bet on casinos - CNN.com

...as the state's junior U.S. senator lamented in February, "I can tell you right now Nevada is nowhere close to a normal economy." Nevada's unemployment remains the second-highest in the nation, nearly 9%. The housing market there still languishes.

I thought housing was up 20%+ from the bottom.
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Old 04-01-2014, 02:06 PM
 
Location: Fort Wayne
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Opinion: Las Vegas made a big, bad bet on casinos - CNN.com

...as the state's junior U.S. senator lamented in February, "I can tell you right now Nevada is nowhere close to a normal economy." Nevada's unemployment remains the second-highest in the nation, nearly 9%. The housing market there still languishes.

I thought housing was up 20%+ from the bottom.
(Native Nevadan here)

The state fell a long ways during the recession and it's only now starting to climb back from that fall. That could take years more, or even decades. That means that anyone who expects things to return to the 1990s"boom" period within the next 5-10 years is simply going to be fooling themselves.

And the casinos aren't going to help things. Most aren't owned by locals and the majority of their profits are taken out of the state. They also aren't going to be the major employers that they once were and most of their jobs aren't the high wage, long-term employment opportunities upon which a major city can build its future.

Not just Las Vegas, but Nevada itself made a bad investment counting on the casinos being its future. That was done almost 60 years ago, and the blowback from that questionable decision is now becoming apparent.
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Old 04-01-2014, 02:15 PM
 
Location: Under a bridge
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When I visit Las Vegas (about a half dozen times per year) I spend very, very little on slots and at the tables (Blackjack). I choose not to play more because I NEVER win and I know I will NEVER win. Gambling changed when the corporations took over. They built the casinos too large and too fancy and with this everything else got too expensive. ($10 for a Rum and Coke at the casino bars? Seriously?) People stay home or go to the local Indian Casinos where they can drive back home on the same day and not need to spend more on gasoline or spend on a hotel room and meals are cheaper. The odds of winning at an Indian casino are the same as they are in Las Vegas but without the extra expenses I just mentioned. Perhaps people will return and spend/gamble when earnings improve and the middle class stops getting pinched. IMO it wouldn't hurt for Las Vegas to "scale" down the hotels and casinos and image a bit and make it up on volume.

-Cheers.
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Old 04-01-2014, 02:59 PM
 
Location: Here and there, you decide.
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Opinion: Las Vegas made a big, bad bet on casinos - CNN.com

...as the state's junior U.S. senator lamented in February, "I can tell you right now Nevada is nowhere close to a normal economy." Nevada's unemployment remains the second-highest in the nation, nearly 9%. The housing market there still languishes.

I thought housing was up 20%+ from the bottom.
depends on the neighborhood… my development up 50% or more from the bottom…
2005 - 509k
2008 - 252k
2010 - 169k
2014 - 289k duplicate home across the street just sold as a reo. no pool… 2 weeks to sell….

cheapest house in the neighborhood sold for 235k recently… 1900sf no pool
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Old 04-01-2014, 03:01 PM
 
Location: Here and there, you decide.
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When I visit Las Vegas (about a half dozen times per year) I spend very, very little on slots and at the tables (Blackjack). I choose not to play more because I NEVER win and I know I will NEVER win. Gambling changed when the corporations took over. They built the casinos too large and too fancy and with this everything else got too expensive. ($10 for a Rum and Coke at the casino bars? Seriously?) People stay home or go to the local Indian Casinos where they can drive back home on the same day and not need to spend more on gasoline or spend on a hotel room and meals are cheaper. The odds of winning at an Indian casino are the same as they are in Las Vegas but without the extra expenses I just mentioned. Perhaps people will return and spend/gamble when earnings improve and the middle class stops getting pinched. IMO it wouldn't hurt for Las Vegas to "scale" down the hotels and casinos and image a bit and make it up on volume.

-Cheers.
oh please…. the casinos are packed in the evenings…. Even Southpoint's casino floor was packed last weekend….

and 10. for a drink is pretty common in big cities…

they are 8. at the Olive Garden for cry in' out loud
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Old 04-01-2014, 03:44 PM
 
Location: Idaho
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Letting bean counters have the deciding vote has run many a company into the ground.

My parents used to enjoy The Old Vegas and brag about a cheap meal or room; having to make every angle profitable makes people feel like they are getting screwed so they vote with their feet.

Love to see Vegas covered with ivy a la Planet of the Apes
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Old 04-01-2014, 03:47 PM
 
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Letting bean counters have the deciding vote has run many a company into the ground.

My parents used to enjoy The Old Vegas and brag about a cheap meal or room; having to make every angle profitable makes people feel like they are getting screwed so they vote with their feet.

Love to see Vegas covered with ivy a la Planet of the Apes
Not gonna happen. This town's demise has been predicted many times before.
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Old 04-01-2014, 03:57 PM
 
Location: Paradise Palms, Las Vegas, Nevada
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Letting bean counters have the deciding vote has run many a company into the ground.

My parents used to enjoy The Old Vegas and brag about a cheap meal or room; having to make every angle profitable makes people feel like they are getting screwed so they vote with their feet.

Love to see Vegas covered with ivy a la Planet of the Apes

Your folks can go to Branson and get a cheap meal and room. It's nice there, they don't ever have to come to Las Vegas anymore and when I was there a few years ago, I noticed it was a much older crowd of visitors. I bet your folks would love it!

Considering your location is beautiful Idaho I can see why you would hate Las Vegas. It's everything Idaho is NOT. Thanks for your opinion.

But I believe you had better let the other 40 million visitors to Las Vegas last year know that Vegas has been covered with ivy like in the Planet of the Apes, lol

Loved that movie, btw!

Las Vegas has welcomed 40 million visitors in 2013Travel Press Release

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Old 04-01-2014, 04:11 PM
 
Location: Fort Wayne
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oh please…. the casinos are packed in the evenings…. Even Southpoint's casino floor was packed last weekend….

and 10. for a drink is pretty common in big cities…

they are 8. at the Olive Garden for cry in' out loud
Sooo…charging tourists MORE for what they can get closer to home is a GOOD business model?
And casinos being "packed" (your perception) doesn't mean that they are earning more.
Or even what they used to.

And if people want to pay a lot for a drink, why don't they go to bars outside of casinos and then stop drinking at casinos altogether? After all, the alcohol is there to make certain that they CONTINUE to gamble. If they drink less, they'll gamble less.
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Old 04-01-2014, 04:23 PM
 
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Casinos have never generated more revenue than now. They make slightly less on gaming but have seen blowout numbers from everything else. Dumb article by someone who doesn't really know the business. Bet he has no clue Steve Wynn spent $60 million on his day club and made the money back in about a year. Yeah real dumb guy that Steve Wynn building billions of dollars worth of casinos in Las Vegas.

It could be ppointed out there is oversupply of casino floor space and especially slot machines, but no one who opines on the industry has half a clue about how the numbers work. They just feed the people who think Las Vegas is a bust, usually because of opinions like the ones in this thread about how things being cheap and funded by casino wins was a better business model.
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